Bug 176348

Summary:	cannot enter single user mode after update to 2.86 based SysVinit
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thomas M Steenholdt <tmus>
Component:	sysvinit	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Thomas M Steenholdt 2005-12-21 17:12:10 UTC

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Description of problem:
After a recent update to SysVinit-2.86-1, kernel command line arguments single, s S and 1 does not make the system boot into single user mode.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
SysVinit-2.86-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. try the traditional single user mode flags on the kernel cmdline
2. watch as the system flies into runlevel 5

  

Actual Results:  runlevel 5

Expected Results:  single user mode

Additional info:

I tried to downgrade to FC4 version (SysVinit-2.85-39) and the flags now successfully make the system boot into single user mode.

At this point I don't know whether this is caused by an actual SysVinit bug, a script compability issue or something else.

I did try to boot with "selinux=0 s" and that didn't help much - still booted straight through to runlevel 5, so i doubt it's directly related to SElinux.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-12-21 17:25:11 UTC

Fixed in -2, it was a new sysvinit bug in 2.86.

Comment 2 Thomas M Steenholdt 2005-12-21 17:32:58 UTC

wow - bug squashed in < 15 mins, that's gotta be some kind of record :)

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-12-21 17:41:00 UTC

To be honest, I read about it on the list beforehand, and was already working on
it. :)

Comment 4 Thomas M Steenholdt 2005-12-21 19:43:46 UTC

I knida knew, but "read ahead" is still considered fair play, so it doesn't
impact resolve time :)

Comment 5 David Lawrence 2007-06-22 02:11:21 UTC

Package name is now sysvinit in Fedora.